10-Cup Party Brew
Open in appThis Chemex-attributed 10-cup party method comes from Clarity Coffee, using an extra-coarse grind and staged additions to manage a full brewer. It favors a clean, approachable batch for sharing without excessive extraction.
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Parameters
- 65 g
- Coffee
- 1050 g
- Water
- 1:16.2
- Ratio
- 96 °C
- Temp
- 8 coarse
- Grind
- 6:30
- Total
- ~1050 ml
- Yield
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Method
6:30 · totalBefore you brew
- 1 Fold the filter, place its thick side over the pouring channel, rinse it thoroughly and discard the rinse water.
- 2 Preheat the brewer and serving vessel thoroughly with hot water.
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Bloom 1 / 70:0024s
Pour 120g in a spiral.
+120g→ 120g Spiral 6g/s 20s 96°C -
Swirl 2 / 70:2436s
Stir gently until every ground is wet. Let it bloom.
5s -
Pour 3 / 71:001m
Wait until the previous pour has partially drained. Pour in a spiral to 350g. Keep the water below the rim; do not overfill it.
+230g→ 350g Spiral 6.1g/s 38s -
Pour 4 / 72:001m
Wait until the previous pour has partially drained. Pour in a spiral to 600g. Keep the water below the rim; do not overfill it.
+250g→ 600g Spiral 6g/s 42s -
Pour 5 / 73:001m
Wait until the previous pour has partially drained. Pour in a spiral to 850g. Keep the water below the rim; do not overfill it.
+250g→ 850g Spiral 6g/s 42s -
Pour 6 / 74:002m30s
Wait until the previous pour has partially drained. Finish in a spiral to 1050g. Keep the water below the rim; do not overfill it.
+200g→ 1050g Spiral 6.1g/s 33s -
Done 7 / 76:30
Finish when the coffee stops dripping.
Notes
Original source
Recipe by Chemex, published at claritycoffee.com.
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Definitions, ratios and protocols behind this recipe.
- Chemex The Chemex is mostly known for its hourglass silhouette, but its real signature is the paper. Chemex bonded filters are 20–30% thicker than standard pour-over papers — they trap more oils, more fines, and slow flow noticeably. The brewer is a vessel; the filter does the work.
- Origin Where the coffee grew shapes the cup more than almost anything else. Soil, altitude, climate, and varietal interact for the years the tree spends in the ground. Once the cherry is picked, the rest of the chain (processing, roast, brew) only modifies what's already there. You can't put fruit into a coffee that wasn't grown for it.